, 1887-10-05
HE TOOK 1T ALIVE

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Startling Kennedy for Fever and AGue Pro
Gcribed by n North - Ireland Woman.
"Malarin?''
Eyes, malaria"
"No, sir. I'm no more afraid of ma
laria than 1 am Of you," and as the
speaker was at least ten inches taller than
the reporter and proportionately broader,
his fear of that dread mnlady was proba-
bly, not excessive. I've had malaria
and I've been cured"
eyes, but a man can have malaria
more than once"
mot if lie Is cured the way / was.
About ten years ago / was living in Indi-
ana, In ViGo county, G Terre Hnute.
In those days a man was regarded as
a RAJ until he had drank about a
gallon Of whisky end quinine and shaken
down his bedstead three or four times
with the ague l had a rather reticent
nature, and / suppose it took the climate
longer 10 get acquainted with me than it
did the ordinary run of men. For / had
TO drink about a barrel of whisky and
take whole pounds Of quinine before ]
could get strong enough to even shake
myself, lot alone a bed. Old citizens
told me that 1 had the worst case of
fever n ague,' as they called 1t, that
the county had ever seen."
''How were you cured2"
II was just coming to that. I was
living with the Dennis family, from the
north of ireland. Mrs. Dennis used to
tell mo she could stop my chllls IL I only
would take her medicine. She never
would tell mo what her medicine was,
but always said if 1 would let her be the
doctor sho would cure me. Finally, one
day, 1 agreed. She waited till evening.
Then she brought to my bed O towel.
"'Bind that around your head 80 you
can't see.' said she.
"'What's that for?' said l.
"'Who's the doctor, you or me2' said
she.
$50 I bound the rag about my head.
Now said she, take this glass of
water in your right hand, open your
mouth, take your dose and O drink of
water the second it is in your mouth.
Be sure and swallow what 1 give you
II promised, but there was something
SO ominous about her preparations that 1t
was with no little apprehension that I
opened my mouth, held my breath and
braced up to take my punishment"
did it taste bad?"
at didn't ave any taste at all. 1t
felt like q Little ball of dust such az you
find in the corner OF the carpet. /
washed it down several seconds quicker
than instantly, you may be sure. Just
rs it was going down l felt O sharp pain
in my throat as if it had scratched
% is it down. asked Mrs. Dennis.
YES I said.
IAN DOWN.
"fYes, now tell me what I've taken.
"In tell you tomorrow, and then
you'll have no moro shakes
II slept soundly that night, but when
l woke up in tho morning my throat was
swollen and very painful. About 10
o'clock Mrs. Dennis came to my room.
She had a little pasteboard box in her
hand.
There, said she, look In there and
see what it Is
IL looked. Then 1 felt tho blood leave
my heart. I turned cold and tainted.
When l recovered Mrs. Dennis was
standing Ivy my side.
Ibid l take one CT those?' I asked.
"fYou took the mate of that one
THAT was years ago, md l never had
a chill after that day. My throat got
well in time and 60 did L. / was efIectu-
ally cured, but I wouldn't take another
dose Of that medicine to n my life"
"Whct was 1t you s~wallowed1" asked
the reporter.
1T was a tiy, hairy black spider, and
it was alive. New York Mail and
Express.